Los legisladores de Carolina del Norte tienen una agenda muy apretada y el tema más comentado es el Proyecto de Ley 318 de la Cámara de Representantes. El HB 318,...
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Now the company is looking to lawmakers to avoid having to face more consequences for their pollution of North Carolina waters. This legislative session, lawmakers are considering bills to hold polluters accountable, including House Bill 569, entitled “PFAS Pollution and Polluter Liability” and Senate Bill 666, the “2025 Water Safety Act”.
North Carolina Governor Josh Stein recently rolled out his first full budget proposal — a $67.9 billion plan that puts education, family tax relief, and student well-being at the center. State Senate Republicans have now responded with their own proposal, a $65.9 billion budget highlighting conservative tax breaks, investments in law enforcement, and a surge in infrastructure spending.
Families and advocates across North Carolina, particularly in Eastern Carolina, are sounding the alarm as looming federal budget decisions threaten to slash critical Medicaid funding — a move they say would devastate individuals with autism and their families, according to WITN.
Los legisladores de Carolina del Norte tienen una agenda muy apretada y el tema más comentado es el Proyecto de Ley 318 de la Cámara
Several hundred people attended a town hall in Charlotte directed at a cardboard cutout of Senator Thom Tillis, who was invited but was not in attendance. A coalition of local groups, including Indivisible Charlotte, Common Cause NC, Red Wine & Blue NC, Democracy North Carolina, and New Rural Project, hosted the “Empty Chair Town Hall.”
In North Carolina, communities from the western to eastern parts of the state participated in the national movement, condemning Trump’s harmful policies and billionaire Elon Musk’s federal purging.
The Senate held votes on two major pieces of legislation in the North Carolina General Assembly. Senate Bill 58, entitled AG/Restrict Challenge to Presidential EOs, would prohibit North Carolina’s Attorney General Jeff Jackson from participating in any legal action that would invalidate an executive order from Trump.
According to the Associated Press, Republicans are considering cutting more than $880 billion in funding from the program that gives healthcare coverage to 80 million adults and children.
“Judge Griffin’s insistence on throwing out over 65,000 votes disregards the will of the people in service of a political power grab,” stated Kristi Graunke, legal director of the ACLU of North Carolina, in a press release. “Our judicial system is dependent on respecting the will of the people in choosing their judges. The ongoing effort to disqualify the ballots of eligible voters undermines the constitutional guarantee that ‘political power is vested in and derived from the people.’ North Carolina voters have spoken, it is time to respect their choice and move on.”
“We have so many special education students in Wake County that if you pull them out, they would be the 14th largest school district in the state,” Chris Heagarty, Wake County School Board Chairman, told ABC 11. “Tell me in what world we live in where taking money away from kids like them is a good idea.”
Voicing support for the tariffs while it was politically advantageous for him in gaining Trump’s favor and then flipping his script when they went wrong, as predicted–without naming the party responsible–is weak. While Tillis bounces back and forth, desperately trying to balance the extremism of his party’s primary voters with the moderate general electorate of North Carolina, his constituents suffer.
In each category surveyed across partisan, gender, racial, and education groups, more people were against permitless carry than in support. 96% of Democrats, 77% of independents, and 60% of Republicans oppose permitless carry, according to the Everytown poll. 85% of women are against permitless carry, as are 66% of men. In addition to the bulk of North Carolinians opposing permitless carry, the Everytown polling found that 66% of gun owners did as well.
The lawsuit was filed in response to the US Department of Health and Human Services announcing it was immediately terminating $11 billion in health care funding across the country, including more than $230 million in funding for North Carolina.
The bills touch on subjects such as reproductive rights, vaping on school grounds, the practice scope of nurses, and paid sick leave.